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Guwahati/Imphal, September 22: Ten activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI) were arrested in Assam for allegedly fomenting communal strife and posing a threat to internal security as part of a country-wide multi-agency operation spearheaded by the NIA on Thursday, police said. A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) also raided an office of the PFI in Thoubal district of neighbouring Manipur and seized a large number of documents. However, none was arrested from this state, officials said. Altogether 106 activists of the Popular Front of India were...

Guwahati, May 21: The NIA on Saturday conducted searches at two locations in Barpeta district of Assam in connection with a case of recruiting impressionable youngsters to join jihadi outfits and work in sleeper cells for creating a base for the al-Qaeda in India. The case pertains to the disruption of an active module of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) having affiliation to proscribed terrorist organisation al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-continent (AQIS), operating in Barpeta district of Assam led by a Bangladeshi, an spokesperson said. The Bangladeshi national had entered...